Goodyear GY500x Truck GPS

In the realm of Truck Route GPS, there have been only 2 available (WorldNav and PC Miler.) This month, two more players enter the game (Goodyear and Garmin.) I said that of the CURRENT two units available, the 430 is the better of the two and we stand by that statement. We have done 100's of hours of driving and technical support on that unit and our evaluation and use by hundreds of drivers we support concludes that it is good. It is not in the realm of "great" on this first rev because it has some corrections that need to be tweaked in the software. The new version of the software comes out on July 1st and hopefully it will raise a couple more points at that time as well. We have fed back a TON of information on that unit to ALK and in my conversations with them, they are indeed listening and responding with a software update for their existing customers and of course all new units will have it after July.

Also, our Goodyear testing is complete. I am compounding all of the data and writing a comparison chart. More to come on that.

Garmin 465T testing begins this week. More to come on that too.

Cheers,

- Don

 

Can't wait to find out how the goodyear compares to the other two. I beleave the Garmin will be the best of all 4.

 

well my Garmin nuvi 465T is out for delivery according to the UPS website

 

I've been testing it all week side by side with the PC Miler and the Goodyear. Very nice interface and features. And the maps are very good from NavTeq. The verdict is still out on the truck routing though. I think that the ALK haters may quiet down a bit when this is all said and done with...

Full reports on both new units are in progress now.

 

Maybe I should just make little updates daily on what my pcmiler gps unit did or didn't do.

Today it could not find an entire town. Booneville, Ms. Try it if you have one. This after not finding the address of the place in Jackson, Ms or even the road it was on. It could not find the intersection of I-20 and I-220. It crashed with an out of memory error again, and it had no location programed into it and I was parked.

Keep in mind that I bought it on the 28th of last month and I've already had this many problems. No software update is going to fix the patheticly cheap hardware.

Speaking of which, the touch screen does not work right. Name a way to not work right and that's one of the problems.

 

You really should have set it to "car" and tested it against a gps that actually works before releasing a review of it. Just to keep it in perspective. It's not good. It's not even near good.

If for some reason they refuse to exchange it when the 465 finally comes out, I'm thinking of getting a camera to document just how hilariously bad it is. I'd look forward to seeing how the software update fixes the hardware problems too.

 

This may be an 'Apples 'n' Oranges' kinda deal; but, my Garmin 7200 had a touchscreen registration utility that allowed a user to re-synchronize the touchscreen. Is it possible that your navigator has a similar capability. Hope you have better luck with it in the future.

Your experience is one of the many reasons I feel this thread is of such great service to drivers considering various tools to enable them to do their jobs in a more efficient manner. I personally hate to see a driver, such as yourself, lay down a substantial sum of hard-earned cash only to be disappointed when it doesn't measure up to expectations. But, by posting your experience, you do other drivers a great service in aiding them to make an educated decision when choosing a navigator. I myself, in the belief that, "You get what you pay for.", paid just under $1,000 for my first GPS Navigator: the Magellan RoadMate. What a waste of money it was!! Proving, or dis-proving, that high sticker value is no guarantee of high quality.

 

I only been using the garmin for 2 days is too soon to tell but so far I like it, my favorite is when it plays a warning sound a few miles before you pass a weight station, that's priceless lol.

Delvi.

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that, lol. It does have that, I've run through it. You can hit the buttons pretty well. The problem with that is, they'll stop working. You hit the button, it changes color and shape and makes a click noise to show you that you hit it....and then does nothing. You have to hit it 4-5 times for it to go.

I noticed also, I disabled the warnings because they are wildly inaccurate and pop up a windows like box over the middle of the screen with an ok button on it (that doesn't work.) Now with them off, it's been popping up the warnings anyway. They set it up so any road anywhere that they did not specify was a truck route is automatically truck restricted.

It can also be inaccurate from 500 feet to up to a mile, even on points that you have added yourself. Like it just decides to move them Around on its own.

It's almost a good investment just for the stories I'm getting out of it.


Holy crap, it found an address and plotted the correct route. Yay! First time this week.